Five Towns Community Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 111690773
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Lawrence, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5162396244
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $260,477
- Expenses
- $768,821
- Assets
- $811,156
- Liabilities
- $23,352
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GWYNETTE CAMPBELL (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ANTHEA LITTLE (FINANCIAL COMPTROLLER): $86,362 total reported compensation
- GWYNETTE CAMPBELL (PRESIDENT): $22,151 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The five towns community center, inc. Is a private, non-profit, multi-service agency dedicated to serve the economic, social and educational needs of the disadvantaged through structured programs.
What it reported doing in 2025
Aid to the foreign-born, aka bilingual department at the five towns community center has served as a trusted resource for immigrant families by providing high-quality, culturally responsive, bilingual services that promote successful integration and self-sufficiency. The program offers comprehensive assistance with immigration and naturalization matters, document translation, application and form completion, employment support, parent and family advocacy, case management, crisis intervention, counseling, and referrals to legal, social service, healthcare, and other community resources. Through individualized support, the program helps participants navigate complex legal, educational, employment, and social service systems with confidence and dignity while addressing the evolving needs of the growing immigrant population.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 73% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 54
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.8%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 26.4%; rating input score 26
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -195.2%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.06; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.1%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.6% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.6% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.8% of revenue deployed · 26.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 4 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $203K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $86K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.